Amid the continuing unrest in the border and the Valley, Jammu & Kashmir Governor NN Vohra on Tuesday met Home Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed the ground situation and the steps taken to control it.
Issues like infiltration from across the border, activities of separatists and street protests by students were discussed at the 4-minute meeting, official sources said. The situation along the border, where two soldiers were beheaded by the Pakistan Army on Monday, also figured in the meeting. The Governor is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi too. He also had a series of discussions with PMO officials and security top brass in the Capital.
Jammu & Kashmir had witnessed violence during the April 9 bypoll to the Srinagar lok Sabha seat in which eight people lost their lives in more than 200 incidents.
In the troubled Valley on Monday, seven people, five of them policemen, were killed by Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists after being dragged out of a bank’s cash van in Kulgam district. last month, the Valley saw protests by students against alleged police excesses where even girls, for the first time in recent memory, were seen pelting stones at security personnel.
More than 90 people lost their lives, while scores of security personnel and civilians were injured during the past eight months after the violence erupted in protest of killing of terrorist commander Burhan Wani.